Spam is the single most annoying thing of the internet. Being so widespread, it is no exaggeration to say that it can bring the web to a halt. When it comes to email, this statement is as close to truth as it can get. Needless to say that there is no truly efficient antispam technique. And [...]
Archive for July, 2008
A question of spam
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged antispam, spam on July 19, 2008 | Comments Off
Short urls contest: bit.ly versus urlborg
Posted in Startups, Technology, tagged bit.ly, tinyurl, urlborg, urls on July 9, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The past few days there has been a lot of buzz for short urls. First, it was the announcement that tinyurl will support custom aliases for shortened urls, to make them more readable and memorable (see here). Yesterday, it was the launching of a new short url service, bit.ly, that brings lots of new features [...]
Plurkmania: statistics for plurk (Updated)
Posted in Startups, tagged friendfeed, microblogging, plurk, statistics, Technology, Twitter on July 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Plurk, the recently launched microblogging service, with the uncommon timeline interface, and the features considered by many as childish (: funny emoticons, karma, and karma related ‘creatures’) is not exactly the favorite of A-list bloggers. Despite the considerable amount of people that joined it, plurk remains in the shadow of the more ‘serious’ twitter and [...]
identi.ca: Is there a business model for federated microblogging?
Posted in Business, Ideas, Tech News, tagged advertising, business models, Jaiku, microblogging, Open source, plurk, Pownce, Twitter, Web 2.0 on July 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Image via Wikipedia In the past two days a wind of optimism blows over the tech blogosphere: identi.ca, the microblogging service of Evan Prodromou, made it’s debut, throwing the dice for two very important issues: Scalability and innovation. Scalabitity has been tantalizing twitter to the point of causing a mass user exodus. Twitter competitors (Pownce, [...]
Technorati authority for wordpress.com blogs
Posted in Tech News, tagged api, how-to, RSS, technorati, yahoo pipes on July 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This has been bugging me for sometime now: how to display the technoratiy authority in a wordpress.com blog? The chicklet provided by Technorati is, of course, working with Javascript, which means is useless for wordpress.com blogs. Technorati has a rich api, but it requires some programming to use it. The solution cannot be programmatic, as [...]
Startups by the sea: the OpenCoffee/Techcrunch event in Athens
Posted in Events, Startups, Tech News, tagged Business, Events, opencoffee, techcrunch on July 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My home country is renown for two things: its antiquity and its islands (a favorite destination of millions of tourists in the summer). Yesterday, I think, we started to change this picture, a bit. We did not eliminate the sea element, but we scrapped the views that Greece is an ancient country with no startups. [...]
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An idea: blog comments the identi.ca way
Posted in Technology, tagged blogs, comments, disqus, identica, laconica, microblogging on July 7, 2008 | Comments Off
For sometime now, it bothers me that I cannot track the comments of the people I care about and value, in other blogs. Neither can I have a unified picture about what have I commented and where. This was the main reason I chose to switch to Disqus in my greek blog just a couple [...]
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